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It was 50 years ago this June 1, 2017, when The Beatles' John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr astonished and delighted the world, ushering in the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork.

Named the Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone, Sgt Pepper celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a new 2017 stereo mix and 5.1 surround audio. To create the stereo mix, producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell worked at Abbey Road Studios in London using the original 4 track masters. The Expanded 180-gram 2LP vinyl package adds a second LP with previously unreleased alternate takes for each of the album's 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo and sequenced in the same order as the album.

"It's crazy to think that 50 years later we are looking back on this project with such fondness and a little bit of amazement at how four guys, a great producer and his engineers could make such a lasting piece of art," says Paul McCartney in his newly-penned introduction for the Sgt. Pepper Anniversary Edition.

This is the first time Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been remixed and presented with additional session recordings, and it is the first Beatles album to be remixed and expanded since the 2003 release of Let It Be… Naked. To create the new stereo and 5.1 surround audio mixes for Sgt. Pepper, producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios in London. All of the Anniversary Edition releases include Martin’s new stereo mix of the album, which was sourced directly from the original four-track session tapes and guided by the original, Beatles-preferred mono mix produced by his father, George Martin. Upon its release in 1967, the album held the number one spot for 15 weeks and won a Grammy Award for Album of The Year.

The six-disc box set features a replica of the original card insert and two bonus posters plus a 144-page hardbound book.

CD 1 / New Stereo Remix 1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2. With A Little Help From My Friends 3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 4. Getting Better 5. Fixing A Hole 6. She’s Leaving Home 7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! 8. Within You Without You 9. When I’m Sixty-Four 10. Lovely Rita 11. Good Morning Good Morning 12. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 13. A Day In The Life

CD 2 / Sgt. Pepper Sessions 1 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 1 2 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 4 3 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 7 4 Strawberry Fields Forever – Take 26 5 Strawberry Fields Forever – Stereo/Giles Martin Mix 2015 6 When I’m Sixty-Four 7 Penny Lane – Take 6 8 Penny Lane – Vocal Overdubs and Speech 9 Penny Lane – Stereo / Giles Martin Mix 2017 10 A Day In The Lif e- Take 1 11 A Day In The Life – Take 2 12 A Day In The Life – Orchestra Overdub 13 A Day In The Life – Hummed Last Chord 14 A Day In The Life – The Last Chord 15 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Take 1 16 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Take 9 17 Good Morning Good Morning – Take 1 18 Good Morning Good Morning – Take 8

CD 3 / Sgt. Pepper Sessions 1 Fixing A Hole – Take 1 2 Fixing A Hole – Speech And Take 3 3 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! 4 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! – Take 7 5 Lively Rita – Speech and Take 9 6 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Take 1 And Speech 7 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Speech 8 Getting Better – Take 1 9 Getting Better – Take 12 10 Within You Without You – Take 1 11 Within You Without You – George Coaching The Musicians 12 She’s Leaving Home – Take 1 13 She’s Leaving Home – Take 6 14 With A Little Help From My Friends – Take 1 15 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) Speech and Take 8

CD 4 – Sgt. Pepper in Mono 1. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2. With A Little Help From My Friends 3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 4. Getting Better 5. Fixing A Hole 6. She’s Leaving Home 7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! 8. Within You Without You 9. When I’m Sixty Four 10. Lovely Rita 11. Good Morning Good Morning 12. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 13. A Day In The Life